Card Factory scrambling to raise rescue cash after sales were hammered by third lockdown By Daily Mail City & Finance Reporter Published: 21:50 GMT, 7 March 2021 | Updated: 21:50 GMT, 7 March 2021 Card Factory is scrambling to raise rescue cash after sales were hammered by the third lockdown, according to reports. The retailer … Read more
Council tax is on track to raise an extra £7.5billion a year after Rishi Sunak gave town halls permission to put bills up by 5 per cent. The government’s watchdog has estimated that the levy bring in another £1.8billion next month, suggesting two thirds of authorities will take advantage of the new freedom. And by … Read more
Council tax is on track to raise an extra £7.5billion a year after Rishi Sunak gave town halls permission to put bills up by 5 per cent. The government’s watchdog has estimated that the levy bring in another £1.8billion next month, suggesting two thirds of authorities will take advantage of the new freedom. And by … Read more
Rishi Sunak could launch a tax raid on online businesses – including a green tax on deliveries – as part of plans to replenish the country’s coffers in the wake of the Covid pandemic. The Chancellor is reportedly looking to ‘level up the playing field’ between online and high street businesses as part of a series … Read more
Rishi Sunak ‘is set to hike corporation tax and hand self-employed £2,500 a month in Covid grants’ at Budget as furlough is extended Chancellor Rishi Sunak will deliver his latest Budget on March 3 next week The Chancellor is said to be considering hiking corporation tax to 25 per cent Meanwhile, £7,500 grants for self-employed … Read more
Rishi Sunak’s £400bn balancing act: With the Budget fast approaching, here’s how the Chancellor can raise revenues without wrecking the Covid recovery By Douglas Mcwilliams Founder Of The Centre For Economic And Business Research Published: 22:06 GMT, 17 February 2021 | Updated: 22:06 GMT, 17 February 2021 The last new tax proposed by an economist … Read more
The mutterings that keep emerging from the Treasury about increasing taxes to balance the books are economically incomprehensible. Such action would not only be wrong, it would be completely counter-productive. We Tories must be honest with ourselves and with the public: There is no way we can balance the costs of the crisis in the … Read more
As is usual at tax year-end, investors are rushing to venture capital trusts to invest in some of the UK’s best up-and-coming businesses. The total amount raised by VCTs this tax year so far stands at £360million, a 1.2 per cent increase compared to this point last year, and that’s despite the backdrop of Covid-19. … Read more
Amte Power seeks stock market listing to finance development of battery cell tech for use in cars and the energy industry Thurso-based Amte Power has said it would like to raise around £7million Amte Power is one of the UK’s only five commercial battery cell producers Ultra High Power, Ultra Safe and Ultra Prime are … Read more
Families are facing a tax on their lifestyles as Boris Johnson ponders new carbon taxes and charges for Britain that would see higher prices on meat and cheese at the supermarket and on gas for their hobs and boilers at home. The Prime Minister has ordered Whitehall departments to look at how much greenhouse gas emissions … Read more